AssetManager copyAsset method not working

[Former Community Member]

I'm trying to implement a copy function in one of my workflow process, however the assetCopy method isn't working.

This is how I initialized and called the assetManager obj using this API com.adobe.granite.asset.api.AssetManager:

ResourceResolver resourceResolver = resolverFactory.getAdministrativeResourceResolver(null);
AssetManager am = resourceResolver.adaptTo(AssetManager.class);

String assetPath = "/content/dam/somefile.pdf";

String copyPath = "/content/dam/html/copiedfile.pdf";

am.copyAsset(assetPath, copyPath);

I've verified it's initialized properly by using the assetExists method and everything seems to be fine so not sure what the problem here can be.

Thanks

[smacdonald2008]

what result are you seeing -an exception, null object, etc ? 

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

After working on this more - the issue was in the API docs. It should be made clear that to work with this API - you still need to open a Session and save the session once you are done. 

Here is the correct code:

 //Invoke the adaptTo method to create a Session used to create a QueryManager
            ResourceResolver resourceResolver = resolverFactory.getAdministrativeResourceResolver(null);
           
          //Use AssetManager to place the file into the AEM DAM
          com.adobe.granite.asset.api.AssetManager assetManager = resourceResolver.adaptTo(com.adobe.granite.asset.api.AssetManager.class);
          
          
        // to get an existing asset
        //Asset asset = assetManager.getAsset("/content/dam/testfolder/somefile.pdf");
          session = resourceResolver.adaptTo(Session.class);  
          
          String assetPath = "/content/dam/testfolder/somefile.pdf";

          String copyPath = "/content/dam/testhtml/copieddoc.pdf";

          assetManager.copyAsset(assetPath, copyPath);
          
          log.info("Moved the ASSET! ");
    
         
        // Log out
          session.save(); 
          session.logout(); 

Here is an AEM community artilce on this subject:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/graniteAPI.html

[Former Community Member]

No exceptions or errors

[Former Community Member]

Any help on this please?

[smacdonald2008]

I will look into this code today and report back tomorrow. I will test it as well. What CQ version are you using?

[Former Community Member]

AEM 6.0, and I'm using the API associated with "com.adobe.granite.asset.api" not "com.day.cq.dam.api". The latter doesn't

have the copyAsset method.

Thanks